Back to the drawing board for ‘The Garlicks’

Trust the creator of a charming little vampire to never say die. Lea Hernandez missed her Kickstarter goal to fund her graphic novel “The Garlicks: Pandora Orange, Fail Vampire,” but will try again in August. The San Antonio cartoonist says so in the video below, which includes copious thanks to all who backed her first but not final attempt.

It wasn’t for lack of trying. Hernandez drummed up “Garlicks” support by the likes of “Sandman” genius himself Neil Gaiman and “Astro City” scribe Kurt Busiek, the latter of whom even offered to eat an actual bug (!) to make Hernandez’s quirky little tale a reality.

That tale centers on young vampire Pandora, a budding cartoonist who doesn’t have actual bloodsucker powers but does have a shape-shifting baby sister, along with a butcher mom and barista dad that run a house business called Orange Espresso and Meats. “The Garlicks” will mark Hernandez’s first full-color graphic novel.

More to come on that new Kickstarter goal and Busiek’s revamped taste in insects.